There are only a few months left of 2024. And that could well create electric car panic in Denmark. From next year, the car brands will be penalized on the wallet.
The EU's current standard for the permitted level of emissions from cars is from 2021. From 1 January 2025, completely different and much stricter rules apply.
Something that may well create a certain electric car panic among both Danish and other car dealers in the EU. It is not at all certain that the car brands they sell are, on paper, climate-friendly enough.
It shows figures from Dataforce that Automotive News refers to.
A number of car brands are thus already facing serious problems, because the average CO2 emissions from their model programs are far above the new limit of 93.6 grams per litre. kilometer.
The car brands therefore need – again at least on paper – to spray far more electric cars onto the roads than is the case today.
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Right now, the share of electric cars in the entire EU is 12.5 percent of the car fleet. In Romania, it is down to quite a few percent, the same is the case in Poland. While the proportion of electric cars in Denmark is 9.6 percent of the car fleet. So overall.
However, some car brands, including Toyota, which are actually facing huge problems due to too high an average CO2 emission, believe that the electric car will never occupy more than 30 percent of the market as a whole.
Having said that, it may become necessary if the EU sticks to both the future emission level and fine sizes to exceed it. Brands such as Volkswagen and BMW have already complained about the view of the stalls. And Renault completely wants the decision postponed.
When the EU calculates the fine, it does not look at the individual brands' average CO2 emissions. Instead, the groups' entire fleets of cars are looked at.
For the same reason, it is actually only Tesla and Chinese Geely that, among other things, owns Volvo and Lotus, which is currently below the new limit of 93.6 grams per short kilometer.
However, there are loopholes in the new system. Car brands that produce very few cars per year can completely ignore the rules. This applies to brands such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, McLaren and other exotic brands.
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